[Sontagged]

Shocking to hear Bush publicly discuss the "truth" of Trump's collusion with Russia...

[cuban leaf]

The world we are in is not R vs D. It’s Trump vs the Deep state. It’s painfully obvious.

[Innovative]

I am really disappointed in Bush.

I thought he would know better after all the lies and attacks he suffered through from the Democrats.

[JonPreston]

W is a low IQ mental case. Always has been

[V_TWIN]

8 years under obama and he had absolutely nothing to say. Of course PDJT talked mean to his little brother so........

[JoSixChip]

Tag for later.

[samtheman]

If Obama had a honky son...

[Buckeye McFrog]

Because Widdle Jebbie couldn’t POSSIBLY have lost unless the Big, Bad Russian Bear was monkeywrenching the gears.

[RatRipper]

George W Bush ran and governed as a fraud. For me, he resides in the same rubbish heap with his daddy HW, Obama, Clinton, Jimmy Carter, John McCain, Mitt Romney . . . I can’t name them all . . . all lying frauds and political worms.

[cdcdawg]

If you identify as any kind of conservative, and you still haven’t gotten past the Dubya thing, get help. We all rallied to him because he was being attacked by all the right people 15 years ago. That was good and all. We are still fighting his wars, still being overrun at the border he didn’t secure, watching his Supreme Court Chief Justice pick cuck out to the Left, and now we get to hear him side with his former accusers to attack President Trump.

Whatever his intentions may be, what he wants ends up as death for this country. Gotta stay out da Bushes.

[chris37]

George W. Bush is a piece of garbage.

*spits*

[frnewsjunkie]

It is the strong, who does not belong to the popular “follow the uppity elite” and just every day, do what is right.. paying no attention to the elite snobbery.

It is the weak, who falls into the crowd that gets the most attention and least knowledgeable.

The pied piper crowd is a crowd of politicians....

[windsorknot]

It turns out that George really is a chimp.

[Zathras]

I am positive the CIA leaked the FISA info to the Bush Family to get them to turn on Trump and push Jeb.
Remember all the talk from GWB and Ryan about Trump not being morally acceptable?

This is why FISA is being slow walked by the GOP-e.
Key GOP members were involved too.

[marron]

I always liked GW. But I don’t think he would want anyone looking into his family’s finances too closely.

[GBA]

No surprise. He says what he has to say, but he’s got some ‘splainin’ to do when all this scammin’ is over.

We’re a little busy now, but his name is on the list.

When enough American voters finally wake up and shake off that old new world order hangover he and the GOP have given US, we’ll come for him, too.

[jospehm20]

Nothing vile from that family of scummy hypocrites is shocking.

[nathanbedford]

[Here's my assessment of George W. Bush submitted here 11 years ago on November 24, 2008 in the wake of the dismaying victory of Barack Obama]:

There are many subordinate reasons why this calamity happened and it is necessary to identify them and assign weight to them so that the important ones can be addressed and corrected.

One such reason can be addressed and could have been corrected, or at least mitigated: It is quite normal for a political party in the sixth year of the presidency to lose the Senate and House seats. In some respects, it was to be expected that this would occur now. Clinton, however, was able to resist this historical trend but those were rather special circumstances.

Similarly, history shows the political parties, after 12 years in power, tend to become arrogant, cynical, and corrupt and that certainly has happened to the Republicans in spades. The voters have just cured the arrogance dimension of this equation but it remains to be seen if the corruption has been rooted out. The "values voters" will tell us in the next election if the Republicans have abandoned their cynicism.

Other reasons are less easily identifiable and more subjective in nature. One goes to the very essence of the character of George Bush. I've long published that he is not a movement conservative, in fact he is not a conservative at all but rather he is a patrician with loyalties to family, friends, and country. His politics are animated not by conservative ideology but by a noblisse oblige which, as a substitute for political philosophy, move him to act from loyalty and love of country. The result of this is that he does not weigh his words and actions against a coherent standard grounded in conservatism, but instinctively reacts to do what is right for family, friends, and country. Thus we get Harriet Meirs, pandering to the Clintons and Kennedys, prescription drug laws, campaign finance laws, runaway spending, and the war in Iraq. The conservative movement is left muddled and confused and the Republican Party undisciplined and leaderless. In these circumstances all manner of mischief is possible beginning with corruption and indiscipline in the ranks. To be effective, a president must be feared as well is loved. A President is more than just Commander in Chief and Chief Executive of the nation, he is the titular head of his party and he must rule it. If Bush was willing to pander to the likes of Teddy Kennedy, what did Senator John McCain have to fear from him? Bush has utterly failed in his role as head wrangler of the Republican Party.

Other subjective reasons for the debacle involve Bush's personal character. He is essentially a nonconfrontational man who would rather operate through collegiality than through power. This is reinforced by his Christian belief and he will almost literally turn the other cheek. So, his loyalty to family and friends affects his appointments and produce mediocrities like Brown at FEMA and Ridge at Homeland Security and Harriet Meirs. It makes him shrink from prosecuting the crimes of his enemies even to the point of overlooking real security lapses committed by The New York Times. It makes it very difficult for Bush to discipline his troops and fire incompetent or disloyal subordinates. Instead he soothes them with the Medal of Freedom.

George Bush is a singularly inarticulate man. When he is not delivering a prepared speech, his sincerity and goodness of character come through, but his policies often die an agonizing death along with the syntax. The truth is that Bush has never been able, Ronald Reagan style, to articulate well the three or four fundamental issues which move the times in which we live. One need only cite the bootless efforts to reform Social Security as an example. His inability to tell America why we must fight in Iraq to win the greater worldwide war against terrorism, or how we are even going to win in Iraq, has been fatal to the Republicans' chances in this election. Of course, one can carry this Billy Budd characterization too far and it is easy to overemphasize its importance, but it is part of the general pattern which has led us to this pass. It is a very great pity that the bully pulpit has been squandered in the hands of a man so inarticulate. That the bully pulpit was wasted means that there are no great guiding principles for the country, for the party, for the administration, for Congress to follow, or for the voters to be inspired by. If the voters went into the booth confused about what the Republican Party stands for, the fault is primarily George Bush's.

[ckilmer]

Trump said he didn’t blame laura bush for hating him because Trump stuck it to her sons. It would be natural for the sons as well to not feel fondly toward the president for the way he trashed W and his brother.

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[dfwgator]

If you really thought you had a choice before Trump came along.